By Jeremy Moehlmann on March 18, 2010

Give a man a beat and he’ll rap for a day. Give three men their pick of two hundred Madlib beats and a guest roster of hip-hop stalwarts and you’ve got Strong Arm Steady. Solid, workmanlike rhymes abound, but a shortage of mind-blowing moments is tempered by the absence of mediocrity. There’s room for improvement—just not enough to pass this up.